Nick Drake Bryter Layter 180g LP

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180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl!
Re-mastered by John Wood at Abbey Road Studios From Original 40-year Old Analogue Master Tapes!

An Authentic Reproduction of the 1970 First Pressing with Original Textured Sleeve! Plus Limited Time Bonus Voucher with a Choice of Download Formats, Including High Definition 24 Bit & Dubbed from Disc!

The album is an exact replica of the original 1970 release: It is pressed on heavyweight audiophile vinyl, and remastered from 'near' original master tapes by the album's original engineer John Wood. For although the original tapes were unusable, John
Wood had made a safety copy of the album in 1970 and it is from this that the new album has been struck.

Recent vinyl pressings of Bryter Layter have been poor quality, illegal counterfeits; this edition is as close to an original pressing as it is possible to get. Original copies change hands for high collectors prices.

After crafting a debut album full of beauteous, somber chamber-folk, Nick Drake pulled something of an about-face with the follow-up, Bryter Layter. With a bright, sparkling production and orchestrations that occasionally border on Easy Listening, the
framework is light and airy where Five Leaves Left was dark and foreboding. The key, however, is that Drake's artfully expressed inner turmoil peeks through at every turn in the lyrics and in his understated-but-heartfelt vocal delivery.

"At the Chime of a City Clock" finds Drake facing existential despair at every turn, despite an almost-lugubrious string arrangement. Perhaps the crucial moment of Bryter Layter occurs on "Poor Boy", where female backing vocalists literally mock the singer's
anguished laments. Clearly, for as much as Drake's heart and soul were bared in every note of his music, he was self-aware enough to know that his disillusioned-romantic view of the world was one that put him on the fringes of society. Of course, some
25 years later, his early-1970s work would find a much wider audience, even though the initial era of the sensitive singer/songwriter had long since passed.

Features

180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl

Re-Mastered by John Wood at Abbey Road Studios

Re-mastered from Original 40-year old Analogue Master Tapes

Pressed in Germany

Authentic Reproduction of the 1970 First Pressing with Original Textured Sleeve

Limited Time Bonus Voucher with a Choice of Download Formats, Including High Definition 24 Bit & Dubbed from Disc

Musicians

Nick Drake

vocals, guitar

Richard Thompson

guitar

Dave Pegg

bass

Ed Carter

bass

Dave Mattacks

drums

Mike Kowalski

drums

Paul Harris

piano

Chris McGregor

piano

Ray Warleigh

alto saxophone, flute

Lyn Dobson

flute

Pat Arnold

backing vocals

Doris Troy

backing vocals

John Cale

viola, harpsichord, celeste, piano, organ

Selections

Side I:

Introduction

Hazey Jane II

At The Chime Of The City Clock

One Of These Things First

Hazey Jane I

Side II:

Bryter Layter

Fly

Poor Boy

Northern Sky

Sunday

Description

180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl!
Re-mastered by John Wood at Abbey Road Studios From Original 40-year Old Analogue Master Tapes!

An Authentic Reproduction of the 1970 First Pressing with Original Textured Sleeve! Plus Limited Time Bonus Voucher with a Choice of Download Formats, Including High Definition 24 Bit & Dubbed from Disc!

The album is an exact replica of the original 1970 release: It is pressed on heavyweight audiophile vinyl, and remastered from 'near' original master tapes by the album's original engineer John Wood. For although the original tapes were unusable, John
Wood had made a safety copy of the album in 1970 and it is from this that the new album has been struck.

Recent vinyl pressings of Bryter Layter have been poor quality, illegal counterfeits; this edition is as close to an original pressing as it is possible to get. Original copies change hands for high collectors prices.

After crafting a debut album full of beauteous, somber chamber-folk, Nick Drake pulled something of an about-face with the follow-up, Bryter Layter. With a bright, sparkling production and orchestrations that occasionally border on Easy Listening, the
framework is light and airy where Five Leaves Left was dark and foreboding. The key, however, is that Drake's artfully expressed inner turmoil peeks through at every turn in the lyrics and in his understated-but-heartfelt vocal delivery.

"At the Chime of a City Clock" finds Drake facing existential despair at every turn, despite an almost-lugubrious string arrangement. Perhaps the crucial moment of Bryter Layter occurs on "Poor Boy", where female backing vocalists literally mock the singer's
anguished laments. Clearly, for as much as Drake's heart and soul were bared in every note of his music, he was self-aware enough to know that his disillusioned-romantic view of the world was one that put him on the fringes of society. Of course, some
25 years later, his early-1970s work would find a much wider audience, even though the initial era of the sensitive singer/songwriter had long since passed.

Features

180 Gram Audiophile Virgin Vinyl

Re-Mastered by John Wood at Abbey Road Studios

Re-mastered from Original 40-year old Analogue Master Tapes

Pressed in Germany

Authentic Reproduction of the 1970 First Pressing with Original Textured Sleeve

Limited Time Bonus Voucher with a Choice of Download Formats, Including High Definition 24 Bit & Dubbed from Disc